Guru vs Tana
Two Productivity AI tools, side by side. Both are verified against their own live sites. Here is what each does well and who it is for, so you can choose what fits.
Guru
www.getguru.com
The governed knowledge layer for enterprise AI.
Best forSupport and operations teams that need trustworthy, permission-aware answers from company knowledge.
What it doesGuru structures, governs, and continuously improves company knowledge so AI tools and employees get answers they can trust, with enterprise search that returns cited AI answers scoped by user permissions.
Capabilities
Visit Guru →- Enterprise search with cited AI answers
- Knowledge Agents that verify and improve information
- Automated detection of duplicates, conflicts, and gaps
- Permission-aware answers scoped by user role
- Integrations across Slack, Teams, and Claude
Tana
tana.inc
An agentic meeting platform - work gets done in the meeting, not after.
Best forProduct and engineering teams running user interviews and design reviews who want completed artifacts out of a meeting.
What it doesTana combines native video calls with AI agents that act during the conversation, creating documents, filing issues, and updating a structured knowledge graph rather than only recording and summarising afterward. Changes proposed by the AI require human approval.
Capabilities
Visit Tana →- Real-time AI agent participation in video calls
- Automatic artifact generation such as slide decks and journeys
- Structured knowledge graph with duplicate detection and merge proposals
- Integrations with GitHub, Linear, and Jira
- Human approval step for AI-proposed changes
How to choose
Choose Guru if you are support and operations teams that need trustworthy, permission-aware answers from company knowledge. Choose Tana if you are product and engineering teams running user interviews and design reviews who want completed artifacts out of a meeting. Both sit in Productivity; the right pick depends on your exact workflow and budget.
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